Self-Assessments
A career journey starts when you begin to reflect on who you are and what you have to offer potential employers. Knowing your interests, values, and what you naturally excel at is critical to discovering career satisfaction. Below are the online assessments we use to help students and alumni begin the self-exploration process. They are all available free of charge. Please make an appointment with a career counselor to identify the best assessment to meet your needs and interpret your results in relation to your major and career goals.
Developed as a general personality assessment, the MBTI is useful in understanding your preferences in behavior in all types of settings, including how you relate to others and in the school and workplace. It measures your natural inclinations in the following four areas:
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how you focus your attention (are you an Extrovert or an Introvert?)
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how you acquire information (are you a Sensor or an Intuitor?)
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how you make decisions (are you a Thinker or a Feeler?)
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how you orient yourself in the world (are you a Judger or a Perceiver?)
-go to "Assess Yourself" and click on "Interest Profiler"
This assessment is based on the Holland code, which links personality types and interests to different job fields. John Holland's theory of career development provides the basis for most of the career inventories used today. It will associate your career preferences within three of six possible types:
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Realistic- "the Do-er"
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Investigative- "the Thinker"
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Artistic- "the Creator"
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Social- "the Helper"
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Enterprising- "the Persuader"
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Conventional- "the Organizer"
Also based on the Holland Code, this assessment is geared toward adult students and alumni. It will associate your career preferences within the six possible types listed above.
Life Values Inventory ©Brown, Duane and Crace, R. Kelly, 1996
This assessment helps you identify the values and beliefs that guide your behavior and influence your satisfaction within a profession. These values are not necessarily specific to a career field or major, but can be nurtured within any work envrionment. You will rank 14 values in order of their importance to you, including the following: achievement, belonging, spirituality, and concern for others. A counselor will help you to identify careers that can help to support these values.
